Many people are concerned with welding on truck frames. This Video may be of interest to them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwzP-ONpv7Eanother:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ewuENF63QWayne

It's one thing to talk about it. It's one thing to watch a youtube video about it.It's a whole other thing to go out there and do it RIGHT, getting adequate penetration, without overheating the metal, and/or creating stress risers where the frame will eventually crack and break.Most anybody can dingleberry weld a couple of pieces of scrap together, but to weld up a frame that you're depending on holding together while you drive down the road at 65MPH hauling 5000lbs of cargo takes some skill and know-how.

Not to mention the liability issue. Anybody attempting that had better be certified with lots of insurance.

People have been repairing, shortening, lengthening truck frames for as long as there have been trucks. Some have probably failed, most have probably done the job. Brand new large HD trucks have their frames lengthened, shortened depending on what gets mounted to them. It just needs to be done correctly.Mark

MARKW8 wrote:People have been repairing, shortening, lengthening truck frames for as long as there have been trucks. Some have probably failed, most have probably done the job. Brand new large HD trucks have their frames lengthened, shortened depending on what gets mounted to them. It just needs to be done correctly.Mark But unlike the coddled masses they did it differently (Like most TC's do their thing !! I once stretched a chevy s10 ext cab into a crew cab long bed it lasted over 300 thousand miles untill my son totaled it .

When I was a kid in the late 50's early 60's, my aunt worked at a place called the Shop of Siebert that cut new Cadillacs and Lincolns into two pieces, then added a center section to make hearses, ambulances, and limos. They welded frame pieces to make the stretch, and put all that additional weight onto them. I guess they had some pretty good welders back then.

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romore
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Nov 14, 2016
Not to mention the liability issue. Anybody attempting that had better be certified with lots of insurance.
mkirsch
Nomad II
Nov 14, 2016
It's one thing to talk about it. It's one thing to watch a youtube video about it.

It's a whole other thing to go out there and do it RIGHT, getting adequate penetration, without overheating the metal, and/or creating stress risers where the frame will eventually crack and break.

Most anybody can dingleberry weld a couple of pieces of scrap together, but to weld up a frame that you're depending on holding together while you drive down the road at 65MPH hauling 5000lbs of cargo takes some skill and know-how.

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